3 Watches I Can’t Stop Wearing Right Now

So at the present moment I'm currently sizing up a couple of Sertina straps. In order to do this you have to essentially cut the rubber strap which can be a bit of a pain in the arse but once it's on it looks really really cool. I'm saving these for a different video that's coming very soon. I'm pretty excited about it but to the point of the video as I was doing this I started thinking to myself what watches am I actually wearing right now? What watches are sitting in my collection and kind of gathering dust and what watches have kind of traveled into my everyday rotation. Watch collecting is very flexible. These things kind of come and go very very fast and things change very very quickly and I've discovered three watches that are in my rotation permanently right now that I absolutely love and three watches that I have been neglecting that I wouldn't have expected to have neglected. So let's begin with the watches that I have been neglecting at the moment because well that's kind of sad. Also top tip time top tip time didn't even mean to rhyme there but top tip for anyone firstly don't brandish your knife that is very very silly but top tip for anyone that's sizing up a rubber strap and needs to cut it don't cut it with scissors because when you cut it with scissors sometimes it can kind of deform the rubber and it doesn't sit quite right. Always do it with a really really sharp knife like this one at the moment and be very careful in the way that you cut it because then what happens is you have an extraordinarily straight line instead of what could have been a bit of a mess. But the first watch that I have not fallen out of love with but it's just not in my rotation anymore and it was for a very very long time has to be this. This is the Seiko SPB381J1. Now I totally fell in love with this watch in Silwesi of all places in Indonesia. It was my tropical vibes watch and I absolutely I still really really love it but the thing is the last few trips that I've been on are to Finland, are to Iceland, are to Norway and these places are very very cold and I just feel like the tropical vibes of that SPB381 they weren't really fitting with the scene. Now these things change all the time and I'm sure it'll come back into my rotation soon-ish but at the moment it's just not there. There is another piece to that and the other piece to that is that it is a chunk on the wrist. It is a big big boy. Now I'm not going to go over all the specs because I have done that in another video but it is a chunky monkey and I just feel like I've got other watches that fit that little bit better with my rather slim wristies. I've got 6.5 inch wristies. Okay that actually looks much better already and the next watch that I've realized that I just haven't been wearing half as much as I used to wear has to be this and it's an interesting one because it used to be my literal everyday wearer. This is the Tudor Black Bay Heritage Smiley edition. Now this edition is much more vintage nowadays. It is actually known as a bit of a collector's model and there's a couple of different reasons for that. One is this is the last Tudor Black Bay Heritage to use the ETA movement. Now what that meant was that the case was slightly slimmer which is very attractive to us collectors. You then have other little details like the rose on the dial instead of the shield and also the smiley text at the six o'clock mark which is where this watch gets its nickname from. Now I have bruised and battered this thing. I have used this watch so so much and I've got a serious amount of wear out of it but the thing about it is I put another watch on in the scenario that I normally wear this Tudor and I just fell back in love with it and then a little swap happened where I stopped wearing the Tudor and started wearing one of the watches that I'll come on to in a second and also I think the fact that it has those vintage flares kind of gives me a bit of anxiety to wear it now because it is getting older. I mean this watch is like over 10 years old. It was one of my first vintage watches or first I mean it was modern at the time but it was one of my first modern sports watches from Tudor and honestly I remember getting this for like two and a half thousand pounds. They're now up at four thousand pounds which is just crazy. Also I feel like because I have the Black Bay Burgundy on the bracelet it's maybe what is pushing me away from it a little bit so I think that if I switch this onto a NATO strap which I have done before I'll get more wear out of it so that probably is coming and there's a bunch of cool NATOs that I want to put on it which I might do a whole video on that actually. Let me know in the comments if you want to see that. Jesus this is so difficult to do. No! It's so annoying these little spring bars. Right I'm gonna do this one more time and then we need to speed on with the video but it's the most frustrating thing ever. Oh my god! Okay so this was a terrible idea trying to size this in front of everyone. I feel the pressure. The next watch that I have to say really surprised me but I've not been wearing it half as much as I should be and quarter as much as I used to is this. It's the Amiga Seamaster 300 meters commonly known as the king and is it still the king? Yes of course it's still the king but even the king can temporarily lose its crown. The thing is I've been wearing the Seamaster for like oh my god it must be like four years now and within that four years it has taken up I would say 75% of my rest time. Actually probably even more than that now that I think about it. I just wanted a change. It's not that I don't like the watch. It's not that I am moving away from the it's just that I wanted a change. That's it. Literally that is it. So I kind of quickly started putting on something a little bit different. Something that we'll move on to in a second that has quite pleasant proportions and as I started wearing that I found myself drifting slowly away from the king which is the Seamaster but just as I'm doing right now a strap can make all the difference. So my plan for the Seamaster to bring it back into my rotation is to change the strap to something just that little bit better. That little bit bolder shall we say. Okay did I just get that? No it popped out again. Yes I finally got that half of it. I can't believe I just did that and it's the wrong way round. Oh my god I can't believe I just done that. I've literally just put it on the wrong way around. Well that's embarrassing and now we move on to in which there are three. There are three watches that I'm wearing most at the moment and one or two of them might surprise you. One of them definitely won't because I'm wearing it at the moment. This is the Tudor Ranger 36 mil. I found that little knack that actually helps get these on which I've not been doing at the moment but normally when I was working in the Chisholm Hunter showroom we have like a little tool deck that you can slide these into that makes it so much easier and on that note this isn't even a plug but if you are wanting to change your strap or get your strap cut or whatever and you don't want to do what I'm doing right now in so much pain come into the store because the guys at Chisholm Hunter can do this super super quick and they've got nimble fingers which I clearly don't. Actually scrap that maybe I do. Yes okay that is one part of it. So the Tudor Ranger 36 mil was my 100k watch. It's the watch that I got to celebrate 100,000 subscribers and again I just want to say a huge thank you to you guys for that. That is unbelievable but the thing about the Tudor Ranger 36 that I've got on right now is the proportions are god damn perfect. It is honestly probably one of the best watches I've worn in terms of sizing. Top that off with the sentimental attachment and also the fact that it's an outdoors watch and I, if you guys know me, you'll know that I'm an outdoors guy so it literally fits every category that you put it into and this has been, I'd say it's getting probably 50% of my rest time right now and up at 25% we have the watch that kind of replaced the Tudor Black Bay Heritage and that is this. This is the Hamilton Khaki Field but it's not just the Hamilton Khaki Field, it's the Hamilton Khaki Field Expedition. Yes I got that as well guys have a look at this. So if I take my watch off now and show you this was totally sagging but it should hypothetically probably need one more out of it. I've also got it on the wrong way around which is quite embarrassing. Actually the strap is the wrong way around which is also quite embarrassing but it's still a little bit saggy but I'd probably say a little half more of the rubber strap out of it and that is pretty perfect. Take a look at this. Also is that watch not really sexy? This is one of the new Sertinas that I'm going to be filming and I'm very excited about it actually. So the Hamilton Khaki Field Expedition has a serious nostalgic link to me when it comes to hiking, when it comes to outdoors, when it comes to adventures, when it comes to everything that I love to do in life and it stems back from the time that I wore it in Banff. The long time actually I wore it in Banff and I just fell in love with the vibe of this watch. Given have I ever actually used the compass bezel? No I have a phone just like everyone else but the fact that it can do it, it's pretty cool. Also something interesting that happened when I first got this model is that I switched on the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanicals watch, the NATO strap essentially for the bracelet. I switched them over because at that point the Expedition didn't have a NATO strap it was just a bracelet and I totally, I bet you I didn't set the trend. Actually I definitely didn't set the trend but after I did this and after I posted the video Hamilton released a NATO strap version which happened to be the green NATO strap version on the white dial which I had in 37 millimeters and I take full credit for it even though I know it probably wasn't me. I take full credit but this watch is definitely getting like 25 percent of my rest time now and the reason being is that I go outdoors with it, I go hikes with it, I explore with it and it has that nostalgic connection plus the NATO strap makes a big difference. So I think in the future when I get my NATO on the Tudor Black Bay Heritage it might replace that but at the moment this is definitely in the rotation quite strongly and on that note I'm actually going to just flip this bracelet around because it's quite embarrassing that I got it I got it wrong and that's actually one of the good things about these new Sertinas is the quick release bracelet is super super easy to use and there we go very very quick very easy to use quick release function. I've only got three of these bracelets now to size which is going to be fun but as I was saying the last watch in the rotation that definitely has another 25 percent and that's saying something because this was a really special watch to me has to be this this is the Amiga Speedmaster Moonwatch and it's actually the Apollo 11 edition. Now for me before this was a special occasions watch I literally wore this twice a year if I was lucky and that's saying something like really I was super cautious about this watch and then it was actually one of you guys that said Harrison you do realize that scratches aren't really that bad a thing on your watch it means that you love it it means that you've cared for it it means you have a connection with it and it kind of stuck with me because I was definitely nervous about wearing this for the reason that it's the most expensive watch in my collection and I would scratch it so I started wearing it a lot and I honestly can't take it off whenever I go somewhere that I'm dressing nice now whether it be on a date with someone I'm seeing or whatever it might be I wear this watch and I think it looks amazing the combination of gold and steel the dressy feel it's something very different for my lifestyle because I am an outdoorsy guy but this just fits right now and that's the watches that are in my rotation but let me know below what watches are in your rotation I've got to go and size another couple of these gonna be a pain in the bottom but I will see you guys very soon